Mogadishu-born Mo Farah became one of Team GB's pre-eminent heroes with his storming 10, 000 kilometre finish.
For the time being the region's pre-eminent naval power, America, is showing little sign of concern.
"No single government should have a pre-eminent role in Internet governance, " one statement noted.
Francis Sheppard is more concerned by the city's ability to maintain its pre-eminent position in Britain.
That's important because that Shariah advisor is one of the pre-eminent promoters of Shariah in the world.
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If crime has become Russia's pre-eminent problem, its most ominous component may be the extraordinary corruption among Russian law-enforcement agencies.
For all his warnings, pre-eminent power, or the hope of it, remained a loud and diverting siren-song.
Germany, divided for 40 years, is now one country, sovereign in every sense and pre-eminent among its neighbours.
The pre-eminent goal ought to have been to rebuild business and consumer confidence and encourage the revival of animal spirits.
On display are all kinds of artifacts from what has been described as the pre-eminent private collection of Asian Americana.
Discovery has a pre-eminent content position and a very worldwide distribution capability.
Among those - if not pre-eminent among them - should be the kind of country they want to bequeath to their children.
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Although these remain the pre-eminent kind of pension fund by value, companies have become increasingly leery of the risks involved in underwriting them.
His family's legal and financial troubles transformed Wilpon into one of New York's pre-eminent punching bags and called into question the team's stability.
Though it has handled this metamorphosis skilfully, it has remained less of a force than, well, Morgan Stanley, now the world's pre-eminent investment bank.
Yet the Daniels legacy is about more than a rags-to-riches story, his position as the pre-eminent watchmaker of his time and an ingenious inventor.
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"For me, as an Englishman, EMI was the pre-eminent music company that I grew up with, " said Universal Music chairman and chief executive Lucian Grainge.
Similarly, one of the U.K.'s most pre-eminent crime writers, whose Rebus character is a cynical, down-on-his-luck, semi-alcoholic detective, reveals a weakness for high-end Cartier watches.
The family, though pre-eminent in the Arab world, had its imperfections.
Fossil fuels supply 80% of the world's energy needs and, as the main driver of China's and India's growth, they will remain pre-eminent for decades.
The Philadelphia Flyers, for instance, would be the NHL's pre-eminent franchise.
Professor Freeman Dyson, one of the world's pre-eminent physicists, who once said that theologians should be abolished, has won the 2000 Templeton Prize for progress in religion.
"It's hugely exciting that the British Library has acquired the pre-eminent archive of one of Britain's most consistently inventive and thoughtful writers: J G Ballard, " he said.
This has disappointed many of the protesters who helped to drive Mr Suharto from the presidency last year and who saw Miss Megawati as the pre-eminent people's choice.
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La Paz's pre-eminent status in Bolivia is increasingly at risk: nowadays, most foreign companies choose to set up in Santa Cruz, a business-friendly city in the eastern lowlands.
Ending undisciplined, wasteful foreign aid is pre-eminent among those beliefs.
The Hermitage, Russia's pre-eminent state museum, was an immediate supporter.
Within a year he was taken to audition for Malta's pre-eminent operatic figure, the veteran tenor Paul Asciak, who had enjoyed a noteworthy career in Britain during the 1950s.
At the same time, given the pre-eminent role of the dollar in global financial markets, it would be seen as an important step toward achieving radical international monetary reform.
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Killed in a car accident in June 1956, he didn't live long enough to fulfil a widely held conviction that he was becoming the pre-eminent trumpeter in the music.
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